Congressional Committees Quotes

• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

  Serge Lang

  Community, Police, Attention

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

  Charles Frankel

  Government, Democracy, Committees

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• Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exhibitions, Rooms, Congress

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

  Dorothy Day

  Firsts, Speak, Conspiracy

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• I also served on many government committees.

  Leo Baekeland

  Government, Committees

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• Gary Condit is on the Congressional committee for Homeland Security. They make the guy responsible for Homeland Security who is the guy no one would feel secure going home with.

  Jay Leno

  Home, Guy, Responsible

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• What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, College, Doe

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", February 29, 2012.

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• Well, as soon as [Donald Trump] travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Opportunity, Fire

  Source: time.com

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• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Silence, President

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Real, Intelligent, Air

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• An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

  Jack McDevitt

  School, Boys, Reality

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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